Linuxchix in Bangalore

[poornima.v.bharadwaj]

--- In Indianlc at yahoogroups.com, "Ankita Garg" <gargankita at ...> wrote:
>
> Hey Poornima!
> 
> On Dec 22, 2007 3:24 AM, poornima.v.bharadwaj
> <poorni_bharadwaj at ...> wrote:
> >
> >  Hi there!
> >  I am from MSRIT. Our college mandates the use of Linux OS for labs
> >  from 3rd year(that is when students are introduced to Unix according
> >  to syllabus).
> >  Our college has a linux users' group called VRLINUG. The group keeps
> >  in contact regularly via the active mailing list. VRLINUG has also
> >  been successfully conducting a technical conference called mukthi (
> >  www.mukthi.vrlinug.org ) with people like Atul Chitnis, Andrew Cowie
> >  and others as key speakers! The goal of this event is to inspire and
> >  support innovation, advocate the use of free and open source software
> >  and encourage contributions to the community in all forms.
> >  However, more seminars and workshops could be conducted and thereby
> >  bring in awareness.. :)
> >
> 
> Nice to hear from you :) Yeah, MSRIT is doing a good job as far as the
> conf goes. I was there as speaker this yr. So, what activities does
> the VRLINUG group conduct, besides the conference? Do you guys do some
> projects other than the university mandated ones? Just curious :) As
> far as the seminar goes...I guess if you could tell us what it is that
> you are looking for, then we could arrange something...what say?
> 
> >  Regards,
> >  Poornima
> 
> Regards,
> Ankita
>


Hi Ankita!
It's nice to know that you were a speaker at mukthi. If I have not
mistaken, you were a part of IBM tech-talk. Right?
Well, apart from the conf, VRLINUG has been conducting workshop once a
year, for the juniors(1st and 2nd year students) that includes some
basics(Linux installation, creating makefile, using glade and some such). 
There are quite a few teachers in the college who are interested in
assisting students for hobby-projects and prefer to have more students
diverted towards contribution to open sorce. Infact I had plans of
doing one using WEKA(a data mining tool and of course an OSS). But it
has halted currently.
Since I am new on this mailing list, I just wanted to know if you
people meet up regularly and conduct seminars or something of that sort 

Regards, 
Poornima